2014 Masters Artists Workshop

Susan Beecher • Sensational Salt Fire

Susan Beecher is a seasoned workshop presenter whose work has been featured in Clay
Times, Ceramics Monthly, and the New York Times, among other publications. She specializes
in woodfired forms and soda and salt techniques. Susan’s work has been widely exhibited
at venues across the country, including Worcester Center for Craft; Yager Museum,
Hartwick College; Seton Gallery,University of New Haven; Baltimore Clayworks; and
the New York State Museum, Albany. Additional recognition for her works includes a
2005 monograph featuring her works by Catskill Mountain Press, titled Susan Beecher
Woodfired Pottery.

This three-day hands-on workshop allows participants to discover the beauty of soda/salt
firing techniques. Students should bring 10 pieces of bisqueware from Cone 10 clay
– either dark or light clay is suitable. Please bring bisqueware of different sizes,
including more vertical pieces and fewer horizontal pieces such as bowls and plates.
On the first day, Susan will discuss & demonstrate decorating and glazing for atmospheric
firing, along with loading the kiln. Day two will include firing and additional demonstrations
on throwing and altering pots. On day three, while the kiln is cooling, participants
will finish the previous days work and then unload the kiln and discuss the work.

Susan Beecher • Sensational Salt Fire

August 7-9 • Tuition $350

materials and supplies $25

Jessica Calderwood • The Enameled Image

Jessica Calderwood is an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin
in Oshkosh. Her work has been exhibited internationally and across the United States,
through inclusion in curated and juried exhibitions. Jessica has been awarded residencies
with Mesa Arts Center and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program. Jessica’s
work has been published in Metalsmith Magazine, American Craft, NICHE, Ornament, the
Lark 500 series, and The Art of Enameling. Among other exhibitions in recent years,
she was included in PSAD’s 2013 National Jewelry and Metals Invitational.

Working from personal sketches and reference images, in this two day participants
will learn how to draw and paint using vitreous enamel. Starting with sheet copper
and porcelain coated steel, students will transform their source images into works
of art. Participants will create new work through enamel sifting processes, underglaze
pencils, ceramic oxides, and overglaze painting. A strong direction with regard to
personal imagery and mark-making will help guide you through the workshop. Basic metalworking
skills are helpful, but are not required.

Jessica Calderwood • The Enameled Image

June 27-28 • Tuition $290

Materials and supplies additional.

Harris Deller • Line to Volume and Back Again

Harris Deller received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been
featured in more than 100 group exhibitions and over 15 solo exhibits throughout the
United States, Asia and Europe. His work is in over 25 major collections including
the Illinois State Museum; Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Japan; and
the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, NYC; among others. Deller has received
Gold Medals at the 47th Concorso Internationale della Ceram-ica d’Arte, Fienza; and
the International Ceramics Competition, Mino, Japan. He also received a National Endowment
for the Arts Artist Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to teach ceramics in Seoul,
Korea. His works have been reviewed, pictured or cited in over 40 publications and
he was recently elected into the International Academy of Ceramics. Deller is a recipient
of the NCECA Excellence in Teaching Award for his contributions to education in the
field of ceramics.

Day one of this two day workshop explores the beginning of form in line, development
of contour, and building forms with mass and volume. Harris will demonstrate his slab
building techniques, as well as making hammock-molds. On day two, he will demonstrate
surface decorating techniques, like incising and inlaying; the use of under glaze
decals; and painted terra sigalatta. He will discuss ceramic history, painting, and
orchestrating glaze thickness to create emotion through heat and gravity. Deller will
encourage questions and open-ended discussion centered on ceramics and creativity.

Harris Deller • Line to Volume and Back Again

July 11-12 • Tuition $290

Martha Grover • A Passion for Porcelain

Martha Grover creates remarkable thrown and altered functional works in porcelain.
She attended Bennington College in Vermont, where she received an undergraduate degree
in architecture. Martha received her MFA in ceramics from University of Massachusetts
in Dartmouth and has been awarded residencies at the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Martha was also awarded
a year-long residency at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana in August 2009,
and in 2010 she received the Taunt Fellowship at the Archie Bray Foundation. Her work
has been published in Clay Times, Pottery Making Illustrated, 500 Pitchers, 500 Platters
and Chargers, 500 Vases, and Ceramics Monthly, which also featured her work on the
cover of its May 2010 issue.

Discover the idiosyncrasies of working with porcelain on and off the wheel as Martha
demonstrates how to make her undulating functional forms. She will discuss throwing
and altering techniques suited for this elegant material, and how to exploit its best
qualities. Demonstrations will include various wheel-thrown forms and slabs in soft
and leather-hard stages to create a variety of cups, bowls,vases, pitchers, lidded
forms, and teapots. She will also cover bottomless thrown forms, the addition of slabs,
handles and spouts, crack repair, and mending techniques. Martha will share her sources
of inspiration, philosophy of making, and studio practices.

Martha Grover • A Passion for Porcelain

June 27-28 • Tuition $290

Doug Harling • Granulation: Methods and Techniques

Douglas Harling lives in Kalispell, Montana and is head of the Goldsmithing and Jewelry
Arts Program at Flathead Valley Community College. His awards include a Southern Arts
Federation/NEA Grant, a North Carolina Artist Fellowship Grant, and an American Craft
Council Award of Excellence. He has taught numerous workshops across the country and
exhibits internationally. Exhibitions include; Innovation/Tradition: Masterpieces
of Southern Craft assembled through the Southern Arts Federation; The Nature of Craft
and The Penland Experience at The Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte NC; and
The Art of Gold, which toured through ExhibitsUSA. Douglas received his MFA in Metals
from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1992.

This five-day hands-on workshop will investigate and compare various means of performing
granulation. Participants will explore simple torch firing methods as well as looking
at the use of kilns and fusion furnaces. The emphasis will be on learning the “Hows”
and “Whys” of this ancient technique and its applications for the contemporary metalsmith.
We will look at performing granulation primarily in silver, but will also discuss
gold. Working in gold will be strictly optional.

Doug Harling • Granulation: Methods and Techniques

August 12-16 • Tuition $490

Materials and supplies additional.

Tova Lund • The Found Object in Contemporary Jewelry

Tova Lund is a jewelry artist whose curiosity about our relationship to the environment
manifests itself in her mixed-media jewelry. Tova earned her MFA at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville and her BFA at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where she
has also recently taught metalsmithing. She is currently teaching at College of the
Redwoods, Arcata, California. Tova is a Minneapolis resident, and currently a full
time artist. She was recently featured in American Craft Magazine, and has also had
work included in Art Jewelry Magazine and American Craft magazine.

It is a natural impulse to collect new things when visiting and exploring unique places.
Driftwood, shells, bones, and the like, all contribute to the collection table. These
remarkable objects can become both remembrances of a personal place and a one-time
experience. Tova’s demonstration workshop will celebrate the natural found object,
its sentimentality, and its potential for capturing narrative. She will discuss different
ways to manipulate these found objects, along with ways to connect and integrate them
into a personal, fabricated metal piece, giving them a unique and permanent place
to live.

Tova Lund • The Found Object in Contemporary Jewelry

August 1-2 • Tuition $290

John Neely • Pots for Tea

John Neely is a professor of ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He
has a BFA from Alfred University and a MFA from Ohio University. John has exhibited
and lectured in the United States, Europe, and around the Pacific Rim. Exhibition
venues include Yixing County Museum, in Yixing, China; International Teapot Invitational
Exhibition at the Taipei County Yingko Ceramics Museum in Tai-wan; CLAYFEAST Masters
Exhibition in Gulgong, Australia and Beuna Gallery in Risor, Norway. Neely has conducted
workshops and lectured at the International Woodfire Conference in Flagstaff, AZ;
Functional Ceramics Workshop in Wooster, OH; Utilitarian Clay Conference in Arrowmont,
TN; and the Experimental Porcelain Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. He credits his interest
in tea to years of working as a potter in Japan.

Tea ware is a subject of perennial fascination to potters, but one fraught with pitfalls
and hidden complexity. We will consider the cultural aspects of brewing tea as well
as the functional requirements that the differing varieties of tea impose upon design.
Experience a close look at the mechanics of teapot construction – interspersing hands-on
demonstrations with theoretical considerations. Participants should plan on a week
long immersion, “steeped” in tea and tea culture.

John Neely • Pots for Tea

August 12-16 • Tuition $490

Materials and supplies additional.

Craig Rhodes • On-Glaze and Production Techniques

Craig Rhodes earned a Master of Art degree in ceramics from Murray State University
with postgraduate work at Southern Illinois University/Carbondale. His studio work
is primarily functional in both porcelain and stoneware, and is designed around the
Japanese notion of restrained elegance or “shibui”. Craig has had an eclectic and
experimental relationship with clay, and in his current work, he is exploring abstract
prehistoric symbols with a mandala motif, using multi-layered overglazes on stoneware.
He has exhibited throughout the region, including solo shows at Ruth Baggett Gallery
in Paducah and Schrode Art Center at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, in Mt. Vernon,
Illinois in 2012. His work was also included in PSAD’s 2012 National Ceramics Invitational.

This hands on workshop is designed to introduce various techniques in the use of on-glaze
applications. The workshop will be useful for artists who want to take advantage of
the archival qualities of clay while transferring skills learned in using watercolor,
oil, acrylic, etc. The workshop will also be useful for those ceramic artists looking
to expand their repertoire by using on-glaze methods on glazed work. This will include
how to use on-glaze for large murals, kitchen backsplash walls, wall hangings and
more.The workshop will include demonstrations in tile making and silk screening of
on-glaze, as well as various production methods and techniques in clay. Participants
are encouraged to bring any visual references that they might want to transfer to
clay using on-glaze.Likewise, those already working in clay are encouraged to bring
work that is already glazed to be used for learning on-glaze applications. If one
has a ready-to-use silk screen, they are encouraged to bring it to the workshop.